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The text of the play, and the usual delineation of the character, leave room for doubt as to the sanity of young Hamlet, but Mr Creswick has evidently made up his mind upon the disputed point. In his opinion, Hamlet was not merely mad, but raving mad. From the very beginning of the play till the time when, his earlier exertions having so completely exhausted his voice that he was compelled to assume a more subdued tone, Mr Creswick depicted the 'melancholy,' 'philosophic' Dane as a railing blusterer, utterly regardless of consequences. … |
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